A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard went on trial Thursday on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder in western Germany, accused of serving in the death camp at a time when hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were gassed.

There's growing frustration in Europe over the tax arrangements of giant multinational companies. In Britain, the government's announcement that Google should pay some 200 million dollars in unpaid taxes was widely condemned by the public as too lenient. Google makes a profit of billions of dollars in Britain.